Ashes of Immortality(English, Paperback, Weinberger-Thomas Catherine)

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Ashes of Immortality(English, Paperback, Weinberger-Thomas Catherine) is written by Weinberger-Thomas Catherine and published by The University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226885690 (ISBN 10) and 9780226885698 (ISBN 13).

This work attempts to see the satis - the Hindu custom of women sacrificing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands - through Hindu eyes, providing an experiential and psychoanalytic account of ritual self-sacrifice and self-mutilation in South Asia. Based on 15 years of fieldwork in northern India, where the state-banned practice of satis re-emerged in the 1970s, as well as textual analysis, Catherine Weinberger-Thomas constructs a radically new interpretation of satis. She shows that their self-immolation transcends gender, caste and class, region and history, representing for the Hindus a path to immortality.